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The ThT System A Multilingual Nordic Search Interface by Ruth Feil and Lotte Weilgaard. University of Southern Denmark, Kolding. Aim. Developing and testing a prototype of a multilingual Nordic search interface. Monolingual access to information in several Nordic languages. Financial support.
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The ThT SystemA Multilingual Nordic Search InterfacebyRuth Feil and Lotte Weilgaard University of Southern Denmark, Kolding
Aim Developing and testing a prototype of a multilingual Nordic search interface Monolingual access to information in several Nordic languages
Financial support NorFA The Nordic Academy for Advanced Study of the Nordic Council of Ministers The Nordic Language Technology Research Programme
Participants Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration, Bergen University of Bergen University of Vaasa University of Southern Denmark TERMplus ApS, Copenhagen Observers: The Swedish Centre for Terminology, Stockholm Ventspils College, Latvia
Approach • Multilingual approach • Onomasiological perspective • Limited size of documentationThesaurus (I & D) • ThTTerms (Terminology) • Existing software
Languages Nordic languages Swedish Norwegian (Bokmål) Danish Finnish English
Working procedure • Establishment of a parallel specialist corpus • Establishment of a classification • Establishment of an index with search concepts • Development of a search interface
Establishing corpora • Test corpus: TV manual • Corpus 1: Document on the Arctic environment • Corpus 2: Nordea’s Year-end report
Corpora Arctic • Danish 65,000 tokens • English 72,000 tokens • Swedish 60,000 tokens • Norwegian 63,000 tokens • Finnish 45,000 tokens Nordea approx. 9,000-10,000 tokens (each language)
Classification Arctic environment in the Nordic countries Arctic regions in the Nordic countries Environment Nature Animals and plants Man Impacts Pollution Protection Hunting Agriculture Tourism Fisheries Forestry Industry Air Oxygen Sulphur Heavy metals Organisms Ozone
Index with search concepts • Interactive extraction of search concepts (WORD index) • Search for equivalent terms (alignment) • Interactive systematisation of concepts (TREE VIEW)
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